The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 18, 1883, Page 6

Adelaide Lindsley: TTE “MARRIAGE IN HASTE.” BY MRS. JULIA C- R- DORR. two—and won’t we have fine times? | the harp. and you must take lessons of Signor It is often said that marriage weak- ens the ties that bind a woman to) her early friends: but I do not he- | leved I never lieve it—certainly vou, dearest Kate, or our dearest any better than now, and I some tumes think. never half as well * * * * Very proud and very happy was Adelaide, when she returnd to S1id- dleburgh the ensuing sumnier, to | pass a tew weeks beneath the shad- ows of the same trees that had shel- tered her childhood, for she bore a little Kate with her, who must needs be presented to grandpapa and Aunt Kate. What a happy meeting it was! Mr- Lindsley and Kate had beth visited Adelaide in her own home; but that was her first return to the paternal roof since she lett it as a bride. ‘“‘Let me have her—let me have her cried Kate, extending her arms for the baby, and scarcely waitmg to greet Mr. Fletcher and sister. ‘Oh, the dear little thing! what black eyes she has, and I real- ly believe she knows me, Ada, for she smiles when I speak to-her.”” ‘*I presume she does,’’ was the laughing reply. ‘‘I have talked to her about Aunt Kate until I think she’ ought to knew you if she has any brains at al!—which her fatherseems greatly inclined to doubt. He wen’t believe that she evén knows me, and pretends to think that it is nothing but a sort of instinct that makes her reach out her little arms and spring when I offer to take her. Ob! you need come to defend yourself, Wi'- lis: I was only telling Kate what an unbeliever you are, and that you don’t think that this child knows anything.”’ **Not quite so bad as that, Ada,’’ rephed the young father. ‘I am willing to admit that she seems te know when she is hungry ; and when she is sleepy, she generally goes te sleep. I am net aware whether mothers consider that as an evidence ot remarkable genius or not. But you are credulous enough tor both ot us.Only think, Mr. Lindsley, she was trying to make me believe yes- terday that the baby said ‘papa;’ and she is—let me see—sbe is all of tive months old—isn’t she, Ada? “*You need not be uneasy lest she is teo precocious,’’ said Mr. Linds- ley, as he stooped loox at the delicate little creature that Kate was caressing so fondly. *‘I have seen young mothers before, and they are apt to have remarkable children. wee to But she is really a pretty httle thing ; who is she going to leuk like?’ “I den’t know who she em- bles," replied Adelaide. ‘+I gave her your name, dear Kate, hoping that she might look hke you. I shall be saustied it she is half as sood.”’ “Oh, flatterer! but come, tea is all ready for you, and I know vou you must be tired. Here, Eliza, take | the baby.’ And, giving the child to the nurse, Kate led the way to the tea-table. Late as the hour of her arrivial was, there was not a room in the dear old house that Adelaide did not visit betore she slept, not a nook in the garden that she did net explore, not a flower bed over which she did not bend* not a path which she did net retread. Her bright happy eyes flashed everywhere, and seemed to take in everything at a glance, and her voice and Kate’s were heard now in one room and now in anoth- | er, mingling like the humming of bees. “You must play and sing fer me te-mght, my daughters. Come, Ada, leave the rest or your explera- hons until to-morrow and let us have one of your eld songs.”’ Adelaide comphed. Her husband much time to perfecting herself in the art. She had really made wen dertul imprevement, and Mr. Linds- ley and her sister Kate were charm- ed. Ada has been learning to play was passionately tond of music, and at his requeste she had devoted | movements in his chamber, wt was directly over thegbreaktast-room. delay, I wish yeu had ene here. She really performs admurably.”’ said Mr. Fletcher. as his eye dwelt fondly upon his wife. **We are go- ing to take you home with us, Kate, le more and, after said: +I will go up and speak to him. It was much later than usual when he retired last night; and he is pro- bably sleeping so soundly that he Massunelli, or whatever his name is too.’” ; A t **J should like it very much,’” re- | has not heard either of the bells. plied Kate, “and we will talk **Why not let hrm BIcce, kK more about it by-and-by. But you asked Mr. Fletcher: *the is growing old now, and ought to be taking his nk of going home : it was very are not to event! ease, and, as you say, late when we separated iast night.’ in less than two months.”’ Kate **How this music reminds me of : : Theresa Gordon!”’ exclaimed Ada. “On,he never likes to sleep later | «She has never written to me, and I than this ;’’ replied Kate; “and, be- ; | think it very strange. Do you hear | side, he will be particularly disap- anything trom Mr. Gorden, papa?’ pointed if he cannot take his coffee Y I told yeu, you know/| with you this morning. T will be “yes. dy 5 4 ss | Eats New York, that he, ack in a moment. me vas in New York, that e — : They heard her run hghtly up the | lter cauhd had married again soonafter he re- i turned from Europe. He did not} make a very prudent choice, I agine. His wife is but a few years, older than Theresa, and they have) never been able to agree. I am] afraid that my old friend’s home anything but a paradise. "’ stairs. trip along the hall, and tap at them. There she knocked the door just above was no answer, and again more loudly than before. im- = ed.Still all was silence, and she soft- | lyopened the door.Another moment and a shriek—so loud and piercing that the listeners sprang wildly to ‘-Tam sorry to hear tt, Adelaide. “1 always liked their teet—rang out upon the | clear, still morning air. Gordon very much; and I used to } . “Stay here, Adelaide’, said Mr. a8 replied | Mr. love Theresa, too. But she certain- | -ery P a . . 5 ly neglects us very strangely- Tee |Fletcher, detaining his wife as she “By the way, Mr. oe soe | would have rushed past him. ‘*Let said Mr. Fletcher. “what has be-| _. go first.’’ But she would not be come of that young man from the ve Ni Ge kept back, and South—he was a ward ot tr. Gor-| namber eee don’s I I used to they entered believe—whom “‘Father,are you awake ?’’she call- | undisturbed, and | nich 5 > 1 think hi The bed was ES eos) a : sae ue had evidently not been occupied du- name was Tilden—Ceorge Tilden ring the night. The candle was| or James Tilden, or something of that sort.’’ ‘‘Thaye not heard from him directly | for a leng time—not since you were married, | believe, Mr. Gordon sometimes alludes to him in his let- | ters, but says nothing very definite.” | ‘Well, your young triends are both rather negligent, and not any teo gratetul, I think. By the way, Ada, didn’t Lhear once that he was very much in love with you? It seems to mc I remember some such gossip as that years ago.’’ How Adelaide’s cheek burned, and how her heart throbbed! It was one of the penalties of the deception she had practiced toward Wills that she was in constant fear of detection. But the light did not tall upon her face, and, hearing a cry from little | Kate, who the adjoining room, just then, she flew to the cra- dle, while her sister replied : “T suppose he was married about a montn after you were—we heard that he was going to be.”’ | took of terror and agony upon her A new subject was broached be- | face far more terrinle to behold than fore Adelaide returned, and, | the pale, calm features of the dead. entered the room, her father extend-| Adelaide's strength and_ self-con- ed his hand and drew her to his | side. | **How pleasant this is, my: dangh- ter. Come here, Kate, and sit down | on this side, and | shall almost fancy you are httle girls agam, trying to see which shall cling closest to pa- pa. You look more hke your moth- | er as you grow older, Ads,’’ he con- long, black wick looked grim weird-like in the taint light that struggled feebly through the blinds and a close, sickning order filled the reom. Mr. Lindsley was sitting in an arm-chair by the head ef the bed, with his Bible upon his knee, and they afterward that his finger rested upon these words—‘*There remaineth, therefore. a rest tor the people ot God.’’ His head had tal- lenupon the pillow,and his white hair was swept hack from his ferehead, | leaving it calm and undisturbed as that of an infant. The same smile with which he had lett them on the previous night still lingered on his ip; but one glance was sufficient to tell them that the spirt had fled forever—he was stone dead. Kate had tallen upon her knees by his side, and, with her hands clasped conyulsively together, was was in she trol seldom failed her in an emergen- cy, and with a firmness that sur- prised her husband, she sprang to her sister’s side. **Kate, Kate, look at me! speak tome! Do you know me?” The dim eyes turned partially to- ward her, and the white fingers were knit still more firmly together; but tinued, passed his hand over the | there was no token ot recognition. rich, dark hair, that was simply | By this time, the terrified servants parted on her torehead and gathered | and a near neighbor or two, who imaknot behind, ‘don’t you think | had been startied by Kate’s shrill, | she does, Kate ?¢ 1 Ah! itwas a likeness preceptible | They | were as unlike as mother and daugh- | But Mr. Lindsley } loyed both, and tancied there was a | her upon the bed. resemblance between them. | Adelaide hung over ker in speech- It was very late before the family | less agony. Physicians were Party seperated for the might; and | moned, but their efiorts were «all in even after they bad all arsen andj vain. Before the sun which she had steod with the Irghted candles in | so gaily welcomed at its rising, had their hands Mr. Lindsley still lin- | reached the zenith, Kate Warren lay gered, as if unwilling to retire. motionless—a piercing scream, came crowding into the room. ‘With a wave of the hanc Mr. Fletcher motiened them and raising Kate in his her to her own chamber, only to the eye of affection = — and sum- Af.| cold and white and ter he had once left the roam he re- | thing of clay. turned ©a some trivial errand, and} again tenderly kissed them. i years, more or less affected by «4 “God biess and keep you my chil- | disease of the heart; but it had nev- dren,”’ he said; ‘*1 do not know but | er given either herselt or her friends Tam foolish, but I do not bke to} much uneasiness, as her general leave you this evening. I feel just jhealth seemed scarcely less firm ‘inthe mood for sitting here and | than usual. But this sudden shock | But good night | had been more than her delicate | chatting all night. once more, all of you;’? and with | frame could endure, and the father She had been, tor two or three | still burning dimly in its socket—the | and | gazing upon bis lifeless form, with a back, j arms bore | rid} his usual smile, even more beaming | and daughter together slept the sleep | and kindly than its wont, he went! that knows no waking. up-stairs. It was past the usual breaktast | Of the hired undertaker, perform- Mr. Lindsiey. assembled at the table next morning. He had not yet come down. They waited ten or fifteen | arraying them for-the:rr long repose, and with hght and reverent touch arranging upon the pale, still brows minutes for h and then Kate the white locks of the one, and the rang the bell. Pthey heara no Continued. Kind frends and neighbors, instead ! our when all the family, excepting | ed the last sad offices for the dead— | gee) and Southeast Flor- {| “Pause and Read! 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